The resurrected World Trade Center has opened for business again, 13 years after the 9/11 terror attack — marking an emotional milestone for New Yorkers.

The resurrected World Trade Centre has opened for business again, 13 years after the 9/11 terror attack – marking an emotional milestone for New Yorkers.

USA: A teenage boy was arrested after sneaking into One World Trade Center, which is still under construction in New York City and is the nation’s tallest building, and ascending its 104 floors to the antenna, police said.

For New Jersey governor Chris Christie, the road to the White House in 2016 has suddenly become a little bumpy — but it’s not closed.

Officials are hoping to reopen both runways at New York’s LaGuardia Airport after a plane’s landing gear collapsed, sending it skidding along the tarmac and causing operations to be suspended.

An Irishman has become the first person in the world to propose marriage on top of America’s Freedom Tower.

THINK New Year’s Eve, and New York comes to mind. Images of Times Square lit up like a disco ball, of crowds a million-strong cheering as a glittering sphere (covered in 2,688 Waterford crystals) descends into the ‘crossroads of the world’.

His father was a famous singer, but Phelim Drew’s first love was acting, writes Colette Sheridan

Superstorm Sandy has revealed a skeleton which may date back to Colonial times, police in New Haven, Connecticut, said today.

US President Barack Obama will travel to New Jersey later, to assess the damage caused by superstorm Sandy.

One World Trade Center is a fitting tribute to 9/11 victims, John Riordan reports from New York

Flights were delayed when the British Airways terminal at New York’s Kennedy Airport was evacuated for about two hours after a security incident.

A PILOT accidentally got locked in an airplane toilet on a New York-bound flight after the latch on the door jammed as the plane was about to land.

THE ACT of remembering September 11, 2001 is fraught with difficulty, both for survivors whose trauma lingers to this day and for the fortunate majority who will never know the stench of death which overcame that sunny morning in Lower Manhattan.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn declared he had diplomatic immunity and complained that his handcuffs were too tight after he was taken into custody on allegations he tried to rape a Manhattan hotel maid, court documents show.

THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is facing at least one more allegation of sexual assault — this time by a fellow French native who described him as a “rutting chimpanzee”.

IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn was remanded in custody today accused of a sex attack on a US hotel maid.

The head of the International Monetary Fund was today waiting to be brought before a US court accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

The New York court appearance for the International Money Fund chief accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid has been delayed, his lawyer said today.

The leader of the International Monetary Fund, a possible candidate for president of France, was pulled off a plane in New York moments before it was to depart for Paris and arrested over sex attack allegations involving a hotel maid.

The leader of the International Monetary Fund tipped as a candidate for the French presidency was taken off a plane moments before take-off last night and questioned by police over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid.

THE US north-east began yesterday to shake off the grip of one of the biggest blizzards in years, but beleaguered travellers faced another day of headaches in New York airports.

An American president who has "the blood of Africa within" him praised and scolded the continent of his ancestors today, asserting that forces of tyranny and corruption must yield if Africa is to achieve its promise.

Actor Woody Harrelson is at the centre of New York police investigation after he was caught on camera attacking a paparazzo and smashing up his equipment.

The head of the foundation building the September 11 memorial in New York told supporters it is “essential” to open the memorial by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, disputing a report that the project could not be finished on time.

The rebuilding of the World Trade Centre site is over-budget and years behind schedule -including the September 11 memorial that was once expected to open on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

Relatives of World Trade Centre victims upset by plans to move this year’s September 11 commemoration away from ground zero have agreed a deal with New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg, allowing them to mourn at the site where their loved ones perished.

The last column of the World Trade Centre left standing after the September 11 attacks will be the first piece of the Twin Towers to return to Ground Zero, memorial officials said today.

A suspected terrorist cell planned a "chilling" attack to destroy New York's John F Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through residential neighbourhoods, US authorities said tonight.

One of the United States’ largest banks has threatened to leave New York City if it does not receive bigger tax breaks to develop an office tower at Ground Zero, government officials said.

AUTHORITIES were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odour that stretched across a large part of Manhattan yesterday that prompted officials to suspend some commuter rail services to New York.

US president George W Bush today embarked on nearly 24 hours of sombre observances at the three sites where 9/11 terrorists wrought death and destruction and transformed his presidency.

Controversial director Oliver Stone’s film about the devastating September 11 attacks opens in the US tonight.

NEW YORK Governor George Pataki declared the start of construction of the Freedom Tower on Thursday, even though work began weeks ago.

Emergency operators listening to trapped callers’ heartbreaking pleas from the burning World Trade Centre repeatedly said help was on the way while they struggled with crashing computers, utter confusion and their own emotions, several hours of the emergency calls released show.

The war of words between New York state officials and the World Trade Centre site’s private developer has raised questions about plans for rebuilding at ground zero.

Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Maria Bello have been added to the cast of Oliver Stone’s forthcoming film about the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York.

PILOTS who guide ships in and out of Waterford port and bring crews ashore have threatened to disrupt the city’s Tall Ships Race in July if the port authority proceeds with plans to reassign their contract.

A man charged with temporarily blinding the pilot and co-pilot of an executive jet with a laser beam claims he was simply using the device to look at stars with his seven-year-old daughter.

A man who shot himself at the World Trade Center site was apparently distraught over President George W. Bush’s re-election, a newspaper reported today.

Rapper and actor DMX was arrested on charges that he and another man tried to steal a car in a parking lot at John F Kennedy Airport in New York, authorities said.

A PORT authority and CIÉ have locked horns over claims that Iarnród Éireann is blocking the sale of a 13.5-acre site that holds the key to a €100m-plus development on Waterford’s North Quays.

More than 1,300 tourists on a Caribbean cruise are to be flown home after their liner was impounded in Barbados.

A plane bound for London returned to New York’s Kennedy Airport early today after a flight attendant found a threatening note on a seat in the aircraft.